It starts with Leslie Ayvazian's sweetly comic play "Carol and Jill," in which the playwright stars as the aging Carol ("I'm about to be 60," she mutters, shell-shocked. "Wow. Tough")., whose longtime friendship with another married woman gradually moves in a more romantic direction.
Explaining the romantic "direction" of the album, she said that it was something "which I hadn't tapped into for the past three years, but it suddenly came to me and I couldn't hold it back.
ISN'T IT ROMANTIC By Wendy Wasserstein; direction by Jeff Cohen; sets by Lauren Helpern; costumes by Veronica Worts; lighting by Traci Klainer; musical direction and original score by Dan Rosengard; sound by Paul Adams; production stage manager, Michal V. Mendelson; graphic design by R. O. Blechman; assistant producer, Rachel E. Roberts.
The core of the movie is a remarkable fifteen-minute sequence, three shots (two long ones punctuated by a brief interlude), in which the Andrew and Emily discuss, in an apocalyptic evening of romantic conflict, the direction of their relationship.
In the last he went as far in the direction of Romantic eclecticism as any architect of his time.
One was responsible for the Neoclassical style; the other, gathered around the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, drew heavily on the Romantic movement for its direction.
The singer split the album into three "directions": a romantic side, a "rock and roll" side, and a "Latino, tropical" side.
Daniel Sullivan, top right (who recently directed the Public's production of "Twelfth Night"), will direct "The Merchant of Venice," about a moneylender's notorious bargain, and Michael Greif, right (of the Public's "Romeo and Juliet," as well as Broadway's "Next to Normal"), will direct "The Winter's Tale," the courtly romantic comedy containing the stage direction "Exit, pursued by a bear".
But for Leslie Ware, a fashion editor at a quarterly magazine in Huntsville, Ala., fragrance has worked its magic in the opposite direction, as a romantic deal breaker.
And unlike contemporaries such as Scritti Politti, who went from politicised squat-dwelling post-punk to lightweight winebar soul music of the mid-80s, Talk Talk went in the opposite direction: from new romantic synthpop to the avant garde by way of chart success.
The vineyards of the Valpolicella region begin just outside the city of Verona, and stretch in two directions from the romantic home of Romeo and Juliet: west towards Lake Garda, at the historic heart of this very traditional wine, and to the east, where younger, more modern winemakers are making their mark.
